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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past and the present are coexistent, 2) if one could live one's life over again, second thought choices might not bring more happiness, they might bring less. To prove both points the play provides some metaphysical speeches and a time-machine. Stephen Minch (Burgess Meredith), inventor who has made a fortune for his employer, has reached his peak with the invention of a "star-wagon" which will return its driver to any desired point in the past. Nagged by his wife Martha (Lillian Gish) for his resigned poverty and fired by his employer, the inventor throws the switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...staging of an automobile ride, choir rehearsal and picnic in the year 1902 makes the second act a riot of Americana. Burgess Meredith proves himself the most accomplished of young U. S. actors, neatly running the gamut of middle age and youth, inspired duffer and embittered worldling. As the inventor's crony, Russell Collins (The Group Theatre's "Johnny Johnson") gives a compelling exhibition of bluff, whimsical idealism. Lillian Gish portrays girlhood and harassed middle age with charm and feeling, gives the finest performance of her stage career. With its deftly assembled cast enjoying a field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...Inventor of the abdominal hood is Bernard Liebel, 22, a summer student at Toronto's Banting (insulin) Institute. The torso hood is a Swedish device modified by Dr. Claude Ellis Forkner. the doctor who transported paralyzed Frederick B. Snite Jr. from Peiping to Chicago in a standard "iron lung" (TIME. June 14). This week, as cinema photographers record the scene, young Snite expects to change over to the new torso respirator. If all goes well, he will be able for the first time in a year to sit propped up in bed, to have a tub bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Lungs for Old | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...Substance").* Dissolved in salt water and injected under the skin, it stimulates the blood to develop antibodies which kill specific germs. There are 32 different types of pneumococci. SSS is effective only against Types I and II, which cause half of the cases of pneumonia in this country. The inventor of Soluble Specific Substance, Dr. Lloyd Derr Felton, who had experimented at Harvard and now at Johns Hopkins, hopes to develop similar sugary substances to be used against other pneumonia types. But before he can turn all of his attention to that effort, he must finish supervising the production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pneumonia Preventive | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

Since then Inventor Sperry has died, his company has gone through numerous corporate changes and Mr. Morgan has held a dozen or so top-notch aviation jobs -president of Curtiss-Wright Corp., vice president of Eastern Air Transport, president of North American Aviation, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. But he has continued to run Sperry and currently he has offices in Manhattan as president of Sperry Corp., a holding company owning Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., Ford Instrument Co. Inc. (rangefinders, etc.), Waterbury Tool Co. (hydraulic variable speed transmissions), Vickers. Inc. (hydraulic pumps), Intercontinent Corp. (exporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rigidity in Space | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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